{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-189/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-189/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2018/189",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/189 of 23 November 2017 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1395/2014 establishing a discard plan for certain small pelagic fisheries and fisheries for industrial purposes in the North Sea",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-189",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1395/2014 is amended as follows:\n(1) in Article 3, the heading is replaced by the following: ‘De minimis exemption in the years 2015 and 2016’;\n(2) the following Article 3a is inserted:\n‘ De minimis exemption in the years 2018, 2019 and 2020\nArticle 3a By way of derogation from Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013, up to a maximum of 1 % of the total annual catches of mackerel, horse mackerel, herring and whiting in the pelagic fishery carried out by pelagic trawlers up to 25 metres in length overall, using mid-water trawls (OTM/PTM), and targeting mackerel, horse mackerel and herring in ICES divisions IVb and c south of 54 degrees north, may be discarded in 2018, 2019 and 2020.’;\n(3) in Article 5 the second paragraph is replaced by the following:\n‘It shall apply from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020.’;\n(4) the Annex is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/189/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:16.945018+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}